Last Tuesday In a dirty sneaky, eleventh-hour attempt Senator Dick Durbin
(D-Ill.) tried to shut down essentially the whole supplement industry inside an
amendment pertaining to prescription drug user fees. Thank heavens in a vote of
77-20, the U.S. Senate voted to table Amendment No. 2127, which would have
created "duplicative, unnecessary, and unexpected new regulations" for the
supplement industry that could have resulted in many common supplements being
pulled from MLM Companies.

Durbin snuck in the amendment (no.2127)
Into the legislative process hidden behind S.
3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety
and Innovation Act, which was set for a vote. Because of action by pro
supplement forces like the Association of Network
Marketing Professionals (ANMP) this horrible Amendment
was defeated.

To the surprise of the entire natural health community, the unveiling of Amdt. No 2127 came late Tuesday afternoon, according to the Natural Products Insider (NPI), just one day before the bill to which it was attached, S. 3187, the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act, was set for a vote. But because the natural health community immediately sprung into action to oppose Amdt. No 2127, it was successfully defeated. Editors Note: It was crazy getting people on the phone to stop this, what I call criminal activity. At least some folks got to talk to their Senator's offices something they had never done before. Thanks to the http://www.theanmp.org/anmp/